re: Interpreted Python and WindowsForms experiment

danlehen — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 22:35:00 GMT

Thane - I see what you're getting at... Rather than attempt to supress the dispose you have taken the approach of showing the form non-modaly so you do not have to close/dispose it in order to continue tweaking it. Good suggestion.

re: Interpreted Python and WindowsForms experiment

Thane Plummer — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:54:00 GMT

I've solved this problem in Python.NET, and although I haven't yet ported it to IronPyton, the solution is the same:
1. Write a Python "console" in .NET, i.e. a textbox Form instead of the Windows console, such that .NET is running the message loop. (See Idle (Tkinter), and PyCrust (wxWindows) for examples on how to do this.)
2. Using this environment, create forms as above, but instead of using ">>> Application.Run(f)", display the form with ">>> f.Show()", where "f" is the Windows Form Object.

This returns you to the Python ">>> " prompt since .NET is running the message loop for the App.

You now can interactively change the form. Please email me if you'd like a copy of my source-code. Email: thane@magna-capital.com